Absorb Quote by Antony Beevor

The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of millions -…

— Edmond Taylor

Every country has its own perspective on the Second World War. This is not surprising when experiences and memories are so different.

— Antony Beevor

Everyone sees drama from his own perspective. My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.…

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading and dangerous.

— Antony Beevor

“it was the horror of the two world wars—Verdun, the Somme, Hiroshima—that led to our own era’s questioning of the tragic view of war.…

— Victor Davis Hanson

I think we continually need to understand how important an event the war was - how defining, how central to who we are. Everything…

— Ken Burns

Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres,…

— Pope Francis

The second world war claimed tens of millions of victims

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed…

— Arthur Henderson

It doesn't take much insight to realize that wars have been getting worse every time - worse from the point of view of the…

— Rene Girard

“To those who fought World War II, it was plain enough that Allied bombs were killing huge numbers of German civilians, that Churchill was…

— Adam Kirsch

Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.

— Doris Lessing